Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people (and, lest we forget, an unborn child) and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009, had raised a number of red flags suggesting a disposition for committing, or at the very least having sympathy for, acts of Islamic terror prior to his massacre. The signs were ignored due to political correctness.

There is a price to be paid for the “inclusiveness” and “diversity” we’re all supposed to be so proud of. We can be thankful the price is seldom as dreadful as it was at Fort Hood, but sometimes the cost is a level of criminality less horrific but disturbing all the same.

Witness the case of Bernice Abram, a captain with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The Los Angeles Times has reported that since April of last year, Capt. Abram has been on paid administrative leave after being caught in a sting that revealed her relationship with Dion Grim, a suspected drug dealer.

According to the Times, a Sheriff’s Department detective was listening to wiretapped phone calls Grim had made when he recognized Capt. Abram’s voice on the line. In the ensuing sting, Capt. Abram was advised of a purported drug investigation being conducted near Grim’s home. Minutes later, as investigators listened in, Abram phoned Grim and warned him about the operation. She was immediately placed on paid leave, as was her niece, a civilian jail employee, who is accused of illegally accessing law enforcement databases on behalf of Grim.

Together, Abram and her niece have collected about $300,000 in salary since being put on leave, says the Times.

The Times took care to note that Abram was a “respected captain with more than 150 deputies under her command.” To that characterization a question must be raised: respected by whom? Concerns about Abram’s relationship with Grim had arisen long before she was ensnared in the sting. Indeed, she had made no secret of her willingness to help Grim get through previous brushes with the law, going so far as to order him released from custody after he was arrested on a drug charge, and securing the release of his car from the impound lot without his having to pay the customary fees. Abram even picked Grim up from jail herself. She also used her position to fix traffic tickets issued to Grim and his sister.

It is inconceivable that Abram’s conduct wasn’t widely known among the rank and file deputies, both at her own station and at the one near where Grim lived. It is also inconceivable that word of her questionable ties to Grim did not reach people above her in the chain of command, people who in theory should have been able to correct her behavior.

So why did it take such a flagrant act of subverting her own department’s objectives before action was taken against her? Everyone knows the answer to that: Abram was given a pass because she is a black female working in an organization that values “diversity” more than competence, and even, to at least some extent, more than adherence to the law.

Just as Major Hasan’s superiors in the Army turned a blind eye to his descent into jihadism lest they be branded as intolerant, Capt. Abram’s superiors in the Sheriff’s Department were content to ignore her relationship with a criminal for fear of stirring the wrath of this or that group of racial grievance-mongers. That she so boldly interfered with the prosecution of criminal cases against her friend the drug dealer, even to the point of asking others in the Sheriff’s Department to act on her behalf, is an indication of the freedom she felt in flouting the law and the Sheriff’s Department’s regulations. She knew no one would dare touch her.

Lest my friends in the Sheriff’s Department accuse me of picking on them, my own Los Angeles Police Department is not immune to Major Hasan Syndrome.

Back in 2002, the Los Angeles Timesreported that Maurice Moore, a black LAPD deputy chief, was for at least seven years laundering money for his drug trafficker son, who orchestrated the scheme from inside federal prison. Just as disturbing, the FBI informed then-LAPD Chief Bernard Parks about their suspicions as to Moore’s involvement in the criminal enterprise. Parks, who is also black, declined to take any action against his subordinate. Moore was allowed to retire without facing any departmental charges, and the statute of limitations precluded prosecution on most of the allegations against him.

Mr. Parks was denied a second term as police chief in 2002. But today, he serves on the L.A. city council.

“I don’t understand why this [investigation] was managed the way it was,” wrote Thomas Lorenzen, at the time an LAPD commander who wrote the department’s report on the Moore case. “If it would have been your average police officer, it would have been utterly different.”

Indeed it would have, as can be said of any number of incidents involving high-ranking officers whose ability to check this or that box on the diversity paperwork has saved them from demotion, termination, or prosecution.

Sometimes Major Hasan Syndrome serves to obscure not criminality, but the much, much more commonly observed incompetence. Off the top of my head, I can think of four LAPD captains, all of whom owe their current positions to belonging to one or more “under-represented classes,” and all of whom have performed poorly in every position and at every rank since the day they were hired. Nonetheless, they have continued to earn promotions even after demonstrating monumental malfeasance.

One was the key figure in a lawsuit in which officers were awarded millions of dollars in damages, mostly owing to her mismanagement of the division she commanded. She’s been promoted twice since then. Another, the subject of laudatory news stories chronicling her rise in the LAPD, has so poorly run her current command that crime in that part of town is up almost 20 percent from last year’s levels, by far the largest increase in the city. We can expect her to be promoted to commander any time now.

So we await to hear what will become of Capt. Bernice Abram. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has declined to prosecute her on the grounds that there is insufficient proof that she knew Dion Grim was involved in any crime when she tipped him off to the investigation in his neighborhood. And maybe there isn’t, but the L.A. Times reports that the FBI continues to investigate her, even as she continues to draw her captain’s salary for doing nothing.

Perhaps, like former LAPD Deputy Chief Maurice Moore, she’ll be able to ride out the investigation until the statute of limitations expires, and then quietly retire.

But that’s just a small price to pay for “diversity,” right? And it pales in comparison with the price the Army paid for ignoring Major Hasan’s murderous predilections. But note well the rubbish that came spilling out of the mouths of people we had hoped knew better after the Fort Hood massacre. “Workplace violence,” it was called, as insulting a use of Orwellian language as has ever been seen. But perhaps the most galling was General George Casey, the Army’s top commander, who uttered this timeless gem of politically correct hokum:

Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.

At least Capt. Abram and her accused drug-dealing friend haven’t killed anyone, at least not that we know of. But even if they had, would some hack politician or careerist cop out there say it was merely the price of “diversity” in the Sheriff’s Department? Someone would. You just know someone would.

Jack Dunphy is the pseudonym of a police officer in Southern California.

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The warning signs shouldn’t have been ignored to begin with. The USURPER has made us all PAWNS IN HIS GAME. And that game will lead us all to bankruptcy, just as it did here as our coddling of the Islamists ruining our country led to this non-Islamist crime.

“From sickness rises the bile” – Abdel-al-aziz (1271).

It is HIGH TIME we faced reality in this country, and the next four years are critical. With benghazi calling on top of the first terms perfidies, we know that this administration is willing to commit TREASON at any time.

The problem is not incompetence. The problem is amorality. Our country has devolved into a moral cesspool.All Law is based solely on a concept of morality. Behaviors are required or forbidden because they violate that moral code. And to be effective a moral code must provide for the protection of innocents and the punishment of predators. As a nation we have no written moral standards. We have perhaps 3,000,000 laws, at various levels; an inconsistent melange of “fingers in the dike” fixit offerings, lacking cohesion and overall purpose.We must remedy this deficiency or perish.

Competence. Not just a word – an ideal to strive for in a bygone era. That era has expired. Competence has taken a back seat to preferences in race and gender – and cheating actually has it rewards these days. Cheaters are celebrated in some circles – its ok – everyone does it. Never thought I’d see the day – one day competence in leadership – it seems incompetence has (finally) overwhelmed us.

The pendulum swings. Somewhere some time – theres going to be backlash to all this incompetency. Lets swing that pendulum hard and fast.

Oh what a tangled web…compromised law and order types weave, especially when it comes to jihadi terror, as well as ‘protected minorities’. They are DEEPLY in bed with leftist politicians, media forces and a leftist-bent ‘justice’ system. Eric Holder’s Dept of Injustice has made sure to taint most departments too.

But, if one is white male, then all bets are off…off to the slammer you go!!

There is sickness in the land and we are all complicit in the most galling wink, wink politically correct experimental thugocracy of the left . Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the citizenry .We need to be aware of the goings on ,or well have to face trouble and a good chance lose because we’re naive about evil.We’re so fearful of hurting someones feelings that we’re turning into blissfully indifferent bunch of zombies.

Let’s remind the obious: Racial diversity is one thing. Just like they were Americans of German ascendency who fought, sometimes with distinction, against Germany you could have an Arab loyally fighting against Islamism

Ideological diversity is another thing. A Japanese American having japanse-nationalist ideas, a German American seen a bit too often in patriotic acts organized by the German embassy or even a 100% pure Wasp, whose ancestors were in the Mayflowerdescending but member of the Communist Party during the Cold War were security risks. Same thing for a Muslim, Arab or not Arab, when America is at war with “fellow muslims”.

Except for the fact that these individuals can claim some sort of “diversity” immunity, are they really that different than many non-diverse people in law enforcement? I don’t think so. Ever see the movie “Changeling”? It was a true story that took place in 1930′s LA. In this very non-diverse, lily-white police department, the police were putting women who got under their skin into mental institutions. No due process, right to an attorney or any of those Constitutional niceties. Once exposed, the women were freed, but what happened to the cops that did this? Silly question! Why nothing, of course! What really struck me was the epilogue, in which it was stated that the minister who exposed this CONTINUED to fight corruption in the LA police department for the rest of his life. In other words, the exposure of the scandal did nothing to change the ethical standards of the police. Jack, these people are doing nothing less than upholding one of the LA law enforcement community’s great traditions! Except now the department has joined the 21st century and embraced diversity!

Exactly. Welcome to the human condition. And welcome also to the reason that religion should never go out of style. For many of us, the big thing that keeps us honest when no one is looking is the understanding and conviction that Someone is always looking. The hard part (as our current issues with the jihad reveal) is establishing what that Someone is looking FOR…

“Character is how you act when no one is looking” so the saying goes. It’s true that some have no shame and some just have no character.

Most of us have probably done something we thought better of when no one was looking but most of us also wouldn’t dream of doing the things that the people in government do on a regular basis.

With power comes responsibility but I’ve often seen where those who are awarded power suddenly act as though they are unaccountable. Witness 2008 to today.

However, with all that said, again…this is nothing new, nor is it unique. What is (relatively) new is the level to which it is manifest these days. Or, could it be that we’re just more aware of it because of the hear and now while it’s noted that throughout history, there are thousands of tales of corruption, deceit, dishonesty for personal or ill-gotten gain.

As a result of affirmative action, every institution in America has lowered its standards, ignored corruption, and blamed the boogie Christian white male for their failures, frauds, and consequences. In education, there are administrators and teachers who can’t pass a certification test, receiving obscene amounts of money per student, and resort to systemic cheating to produce standarized test results, giving us cities filled with government leeches and criminals. In corporate America, especially any with government contracts, quota maintenance drives hiring, not competence, experience, or work ethic; my boss was told what his next three hires would be to maintain the diversity quota. In the media, the leftist push their agenda in every commercial, sitcom, and news story; the meme these days is the stupid white male and the brilliant black person ridiculing them, plus, the black guy gets the white girl. Islam is pushing its way into our quiet Christian communities with mega-mosques funded by Saudi Arabia and other jihadist interests; they especially want their victory mosque at Twin Towers in NYC, and the design of the 9/11 memorial in PA is a sickening tribute to jihad.

Bile is in the throat of the warrior class. Real men and real patriots won’t take this forever. There will be a reckoning.

AS a retired Sgt. with LASD I am ashamed of what has happened to the dept I served for 30 years. Capt Abrams is a disgrace to law enforcement and deserves to be in prison if she is guilty which I think she is..There is no excuse that this case sat for so long before a decision was made by the D.A. I hope that the Feds which are involved in her case can find some felony to convict her of which will be grounds for her to lose any pension from LA County..

Did anyone note that the recent teacher test taking scandal in Ark and Tenn had definite racial overtones? The scam of having a stand in take an accrediation test was headed by a Black and went on for over 15 years.

Were many of the patently unqualified “teachers” that should have been weeded out by this exam given a pass simply because of their “minority” status? Knowing the PC state of our schools it seems highly likely!

Affirmative action and disparate impact are nothing but code words for blatant racism.

This sort of blind eye attitude is racist in and of itself. It says that minorities cannot do their job unless incompetence is ingnored. That’s racist.

People want the end of racism? Judge this captain regardless of her gender or race. Put her up against the same level of competence and integrity required of a white male. When people are given a free pass based on race, that perpetuates the stereotype that women and non-white people can’t make it without being judged as less competent and therefore handicapped into a position they don’t deserve if they were white and maile.

That might be more comforting if the original speaker wasn’t a 4-star general and Army Chief of Staff at the time is said it. What kind of people do you think will get promoted in an Army led by such men? Not a pretty thought, is it?

The ones I truly feel sorry for are the competent minority leaders. I have worked for so many unqualified lieutenants and captains who obviously obtained their rank based on a quest for diversity rather than ability, that I now assume that all minorities in these positions are incompetent until they prove otherwise.

Germany’s Angela Merkel was dead-on accurate when she said multiculturalism does not work. The hyphenization, balkanization, and segmentation of society into neat little groups has served no one but a particular wing of the political class. Diversity is far more than people who don’t look alike, but considering that is a bridge too far for the multi-cultis. And so, we get stories like this which, let’s be honest, surprise no one.

Eric Holder may have uttered a malicious truth in proclaiming us cowards regarding race; he was just speaking about the wrong people. Like Obama and Susan Rice, Holder, too, has used race as a smokescreen for incompetence if not criminality. Yet, people choose to ignore the elephant in the living room. Choices have consequences, just like elections do.

I think it’s worse than that. Because those in the minorities have never been forced to self-critique, they actually believe they are just as good as anyone else. The mechanisms whereby the ego is fed and allowed to ignore reality are not that complicated. Rewarding failure and empty praise serve to inflate the ego of the recipient (See: Nobel Peace Prize, Obama) and allow them to believe in their own superiority.

There have been movies about the guy who was praised as the greatest everything..and one comedic episode of “The Twilight Zone” (“Hocus-Pocus And Frisbee”) where the main character was such a BS’er that he’s abducted by aliens to be taken back to their planet as an exhibit.

But in the serious flicks, the character eventually has to admit they are incapable of performing at the level ascribed to them by others. Sometimes the character finds out they actually can, other times they end up doing the noble thing and through their demise end up saving the lives of the other characters or something similar.

Never do they get to constantly BS their way through everything. But I guess that’s real life for now. Like, when judges decide it’s not a crime for a guy to pose as a very decorated war veteran to get access to benefits, etc. Or a president who is the “magic negro” and is the best speaker ever, the smartest president ever, etc ad nauseum.

But the problem stems from those who believe that the person wouldn’t be able to ever perform at the level expected of “whitey” so they get a pass. Then they are also given most everything else out of a misguided aim to “help”. But the help hurts more than telling the individual they need to work harder, try harder, that they aren’t measuring up, etc. But many believe to do so would be “mean” or “cruel” or “racist”. So when the military told me of the standards that were required, often enough, I just laughed inwardly.

Is your Black Fireman, your Mexican Dishwasher, your Asian Doctor, a Criminal?
If so you should get them fired.

No wait, I am still curious. Did the Black woman join the Police dept to become a criminal? Are all non Whites employed everywhere criminals? Were they all criminals before segregation?
Are only unemployed non Whites honest? What about White criminals? Are they employed? If they had jobs would they stop being criminals?
If you think we should have an all White country just say so, I am not going to argue with you. I think we would probably still have crime though.

Ozzy, you miss the point. The color of her skin has nothing to do with her criminality, the color of her skin has to do with the disparative treatment she received. Do you really believe that a white male captain would have been given the same length of rope? If you think that he would have been, then you haven’t had much contact with the modern civil service in Los Angeles city or county. That’s the point of this article, not that Mexican dishwashers may commit crimes. Thanks for throwing out racism accusations. That’s the last bastion of a small mind.

These problems are self-correcting, over time. At some point a majority will see identity politics and diversity as a scam, and people in those groups will discover that help and cooperation they assumed to be a natural right, vanishes.

While not internationally famous as the storied LAPD, the LASD polices some of the roughest streets in the USA. Very tough officers. Very street smart.

Speaking out against black malfeasance will earn an honest officer charges of racism. This will bring their advancement within the department to a screeching halt and get a marginal officer fired — losing that treasured pension and lifetime healthcare.

Speaking out against white malfeasance will earn an honest (minority) officer charges of ‘disloyalty’. This will bring their advancement within the department to a screeching halt and get a marginal officer fired – losing that treasured pension and lifetime healthcare. These problems did not just start with ‘diversity’, they are deep-rooted in dept culture and point clearly to this being a problem of lack of integrity and accountability on the part of those who ought to be keeping this type of behavior out of the department. d It is not just a ‘diversity’ problem.

Thirty years on the street, 15 in narcotics, been through thousands of doors. On the street I’ve been shot at and missed. In the station, I was shit on and hit more times than I can count. The only folks that dislike working police officers more than the ACLU are the police brass. Working cops make the brass do things they don’t like to do: make decisions, take responsibility, leave the station for dangerous nasty places and upset their routine.

Re: “Note well the rubbish that came spilling out of the mouths of people we had hoped knew better after the Fort Hood massacre. “Workplace violence,” it was called, as insulting a use of Orwellian language as has ever been seen. But perhaps the most galling was General George Casey, the Army’s top commander, who uttered this timeless gem of politically correct hokum:

Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

Political correctness = factual incorrectness. Lying (fraud) is the most basic form of theft – it’s the theft of the Truth. And theft IS crime.

My American brothers (& sisters – of all races) can take comfort in the knowledge that this PC foolishness is well entrenched north of the 49th and even worse in the UK. Glad to see Jack is still writing.